| "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it." »E. B. White |
| "Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him." »Hindustani Proverb |
| "Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." »E. B. White |
| "A turtle with no legs tends not to go anywhere." »J & A Foundation |
| "Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed." »Hoshang N. Akhtar |
| "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward." »Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| "For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him." »Bertolt Brecht |
| "Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)" »Mao Zedong |
| "There isnothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs." »Diana Nyad |
| "It was a turkey He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird He would have snapped 'em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax." »Charles Dickens |
| "In a puddle, ask for a pool; in a pool, ask for a lake; in a lake, ask for an ocean. This is the way for a frog to reach the stars!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "Happiness is not a circus clown rolling around in a big tractor tire so that his arms and legs form 'spokes.' Happiness is when he stops." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature." »William Sherman Pene du Bois |
| "Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket." »Alan Marshall Beck |
| "The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX missile)" »Ronald Reagan |
| "A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two." »Richard Kehl |
| "Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here What was it about Was it her smile Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night." »Sybil Adelman |
| "You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men." »Max Beerbohm |
| "One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight." »James Grover Thurber |
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